77-Year-Old Patricia Pusey, a Houston, TX resident, is blind. That‘s important because it’s crucial to her story of fraud — according to her, she was recently duped and lost her home because of it.
Pusey says she was told she was signing an agreement to help pay off delinquent taxes. Instead, however, she unknowingly signed over the deed to sell her family home, heirlooms, antiques and keepsakes inside. It was then ultimately demolished, and she lost out.
The Houston Chronicle reports that Pusey lived in the five-bedroom house for decades, and it was built by her father in 1948:
Pusey says she was told she was signing an agreement to help pay off delinquent taxes. Instead, however, she unknowingly signed over the deed to sell her family home, heirlooms, antiques and keepsakes inside. It was then ultimately demolished, and she lost out.
The Houston Chronicle reports that Pusey lived in the five-bedroom house for decades, and it was built by her father in 1948:
“Pusey’s allegations are the latest in a series of reported real estate thefts in Harris County that mainly center around questionable or bogus transfers of vacant or abandoned homes belonging to mostly elderly or absentee landowners in historically African-American neighborhoods.Taylor-Campbell’s defense attorney says her client has insisted on her innocence, and from what she can see does not believe Taylor-Campbell has done anything illegal. Rolland said Pusey consented to selling her home and Taylor-Campbell never offered tax help. However, the Chronicle reports on some fishy dealings made by Taylor-Campbell around the time of her encounter with Pusey:
A Houston businesswoman and real estate investor named Niyoka Taylor-Campbell, 34, of Humble, faces related 2011 charges of felony theft of more than $20,000 and execution of a legal document through deception as a result of Pusey’s complaint, Harris County Criminal District Court records show. The case is being prosecuted by the Harris County District Attorney’s Consumer Fraud Division.”
“The notarized property deed transferred Pusey’s home to a company called Strong Roots of Texas, a Limited Liability Company, on Aug. 28, 2008, county records show. Secretary of state records show Taylor-Campbell formed ‘Strong Roots of Texas LLC’ in July 2008, only about a month before the alleged ‘sale.‘ Other documents show the company’s legal status was ‘involuntarily terminated’ even before that sale went through for failure to pay required fees.The Consumerist reports that after the sale, the house was demolished with Pusey’s family heirlooms still inside:
Taylor-Campbell’s company later resold the property to a businessman who resold it to Mt. Corinth Baptist Church, deed records show.”
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